A "last" 2nd TAF Veteran rejoins the real D-day heroes 🇨🇦
Agatha (with unpredicted foresight) is probably now correct in Leslie Dobinson being the sole living Veteran of the RAF who landed on Omaha Beach; for ex-Flt Sgt Muir Adair RCAF the "Chiefie" Radar Technician of 15082GCI, and last Canadian survivor, sadly passed away on 16th August 2015 aged 96 in Langley British Columbia, shortly after his grandson accepted the insignia of Chevalier of l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur on his behalf. Chiefie Adair was Agatha's unspecied Other Rank, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Having swum ashore at an isolated location he gathered together a motley squad of RN, Army and US stragglers and led them in the clearance of German defenders from an orchard that separated him from the 15082GCI survivors who had regrouped with salvaged equipment a mile or two inland. The two other OR's, who were awarded the even rarer, for the RAF, Military Medal were the LAC Nursing Orderly and Adair's "brother" Flight Sergeant. May they all rest in peace. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.